Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 55 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, November 4.

CONCERTS

Canadian rap superstar Drake plays the second of two nights at Rogers Arena, with guests Migos.

Mississippi Live & The Dirty Dirty perform blues, country, and smooth Southern rock at Earthwise Society.

Family band featuring clarinetist Lloyd Arntzen and vocalist Holly Arntzen performs at Surrey's Northwood United Church.

New cover band Six 2 Six performs rock, soul, blues, and pop at the WISE Hall.

The BC World Music Collective--comprised of Adonis Puentes, Celso Machado, Tonye Aganaba, Kurai Blessing, JP Carter, Locarno, and Ostwelve--performs at Maple Ridge's ACT Arts Centre.

Texas trip-hop duo Voodoo Boogaloo plays LanaLou's Restaurant, with guests the Deadset and Kyla Coopman.

Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova artist and jazz icon Lisa Ono performs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Local rock 'n' roll duo Kitty & the Rooster plays the WISE Lounge, with guests Soda Pony and Paris Pick.

Grammy-winning pop vocalist from Cuba, Descemer Bueno, plays the Red Room Ultrabar.

Australian band Belle Miners plays Guilt & Company, performing tunes from debut album Powerful Owl.

BENEFITS

Benefit concert at St. James Hall featuring Trivo (above) and Fraser Union supports the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Woodward's Harvest Dinner at the Woodward's Atrium supports the PHS Community Services Society, a charity operating in Vancouver’s DTES.

ETCETERA

The Vancouver Mycological Society presents a show of local autumn fungi at Richmond Nature Park.

FOOD & DRINK

Peter Ciuffa hosts an Italian cooking class on making fresh pasta at Kitsilano Community Centre.

The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market at the PNE Grounds features local produce, meat, seafood, dairy, craft alcohol, and food trucks.

FORUMS

The two-day Franchise Canada Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre is aimed at those interested in owning their own business.

COMEDY

Instant Theatre presents a battle between two groups of improvisers at Havana Theatre.

Testicular-cancer survivor Richard Lett performs his comedy show One Nut Only at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

ARTS ETCETERA

Final day of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, which features music, stories, songs, poetry, films, theatre, dance, spoken word, workshops, art talks, and history walks at the Firehall Arts Centre.

Curious Imaginings--an immersive sculpture exhibition featuring the hyper-realist, fantastical creatures of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini--continues at Strathcona’s historic Patricia Hotel.

Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation at the Vancouver Aquarium, Vortex, takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis.

Diwali in B.C. is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary, inclusive festival with performances taking place at various Vancouver venues.

Local glass artists show and sell their handmade glass beads and jewellery at Heritage Hall.

LITERARY

Maritime historian Rick James speaks at the launch of his book Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How: The Real Story of West Coast Rum Running at Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Canzine Vancouver features panels, workshops, programming for kids and teens, and over 100 zine and comic vendors at Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre.

MUSIC

Pianist Eve Egoyan performs original works and music by Nicole Lizée, John Oswald, David Rokeby, Michael Snow, and Linda Catlin Smith at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre.

The New Westminster Symphony Orchestra performs works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Ravel and Grieg at Massey Theatre.

Concert in honour of All Soul's Day at St. Philip's Anglican Church features Mozart's Requiem.

Pianist Richard Uttley performs the music of Eric Wubbels, Michael Cutting, Naomi Pinnock, and Georg Friedrich Haas at CBC Studio 700.

THEATRE

Mitch and Murray Productions proudly presents the Vancouver premiere at Studio 16 of Sex With Strangers, a drama about love, lust, and the nature of identity in our digital-dominated era.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Sweat, Lynn Nottage's examination of a community that is formed and dissolved amidst the changing landscape of America, at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Performance at Metro Theatre of Busybody, a crime comedy in which a cleaning lady finds the dead body of her employer. 

Performance at Vancity Culture Lab of The Believers Are But Brothers, a one-man show that explores the smoke-and-mirrors world of online extremism, anonymity, and hate speech.

GALLERIES

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of Guo Pei: Couture Beyond, the first-ever fashion exhibition in the Gallery’s history, which traces the evolution of China’s foremost couturière over 10 years.

Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) artist Dana Claxton addresses the oppressive legacies of colonialism through photography, film, video and performance in Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest at the Bill Reid Gallery sees guest curator Dion Kaszas of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation trace the deep-rooted traditions of Indigenous tattooing, piercing and personal adornment.

Discover the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection through an exhibition of nearly 90 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures in A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects.

Interface: The Woven Artwork of Jaad Kuujus at Bill Reid Gallery explores the intricate textile works and cedar weavings of the Kakwaka’wakw and Haida artist.

MUSEUMS

In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 110 historical indigenous artworks and explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands.

Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition at the Museum of Vancouver is guest-curated by Kwiaahwah Jones and features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.

Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives at the Museum of Vancouver delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city.

Richmond's Lipont Place hosts Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which focuses on the legendary RMS Titanic's compelling human stories through more than 120 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations.

ATTRACTIONS

The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

Science World features hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre.

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven cable bridges suspended in trees, the Living Forest exhibit, totem pole collection, CLIFFWALK, and Treetop Adventure.

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library.

Stanley Park features 400 hectares of trails, gardens, beaches, and West Coast rain forest, with scenic walking and biking along the 8.8 kilometre seawall.

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is an authentic representation of an age-old garden tradition that reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

MOVIES

Screening at the Rio Theatre of director Tommy Wiseau‘s bizarre cinematic oddity The Room, hosted by costar Greg Sestero.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of This Mountain Life, filmmaker Grant Baldwin’s portrait of the local mountain men and women in B.C.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Maria by Callas, Tom Volf’s film about legendary American soprano Maria Callas.

Screenings at the Pacific Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's Music in Darkness and Thirst.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Bel Canto, about an opera singer caught up in a South American hostage siege.

Free screening at Vancity Theatre of Orson Welles' final film, The Other Side of the Wind.

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